BARROW AND BEYOND
A one day tour of Barrow is all you need to get to know this little village and the people who fondly call it home. Alaska Airlines and Ravn Airlines are the two commercial airline companies that will get you[…]
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Category: Don’t Skip this Place
LIFE IN BARROW
How can we spend time in Alaska without stepping foot on the most northern point in the United States? We knew the answer to that question and booked a short trip to Barrow, whose name recently changed to Utqiagvik. Don’t[…]
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THE EMERALD ISLE OF ALASKA
Although we have driven for most of this road trip, we hopped on an Alaskan Airlines flight out of Anchorage to head to Kodiak Island, the “emerald isle” and second largest island in the United States. This post with pictures[…]
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DRIVING PAST BIRD TO GIRD
We took another day trip from Anchorage down the Seward Highway to Girdwood. On the way, we passed the Bird Ridge Trailhead and Bird Creek. There is a bike path called the Bird to Gird that is 12 miles long[…]
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SCENIC SEWARD
The 120 mile drive from Ninilchik to Seward was breathtaking. The two lane road snaked through the turns in the valley and we could see mountains on both sides of the road. The different colors of vegetation represent how long[…]
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THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOMER
I have to admit that I really wanted to visit Homer to see the Time Bandit from Deadliest Catch. We were two weeks too late. The boat and crew were here for provisioning, but they had already left to make[…]
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HERE’S YOUR SIGN
We made it to Watson Lake in the Yukon Territory and took an extra day to sightsee and slow down a bit. Today we went to the Signpost Forest where there are over 72,000 signs from all over the world.[…]
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